Joshua Hatton Explained

Joshua Hatton (8 June 1850 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire – 1920)^[1] was an English writer, poet and editor, the brother of Joseph Hatton, Editor of The People).^[2] His exact date of death in late 1920 is uncertain, but it was reported at the beginning of 1921. He was aged 70.^[2]

Reputation

Hatton commonly used the pseudonym Guy Roslyn, although he is more often regarded by that name as a bogus biographer reduced to poverty and begging from the subjects of his biographies in his later life.^[3]

Works

Poetry and novels

• Daphnis the Unfaithful: a poetic romance, London: John Camden Hotten, 1870
• George Eliot in Derbyshire. Gossip on passages and characters in her novels, London, 1876^[4]
• Lyrics and Landscapes, etc., London/Perth, 1878
• Village Verses, etc., London/Plymouth, 1876

Editor

• The Biograph, and Review, London: E. W. Allen, 1879–1882^[5]
• The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, London: Henry Colburn and Co., to 1882

Notes and References

1. Web site: Index entry. 2014-03-29 . FreeBMD . ONS.
2. The Athenaeum, 7 January 1921.
3. News: Remainder . Korn . Eric . 2 September 1983 . The Times Literary Supplement . 930.
4. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?fn=search&ct=search&initialSearch=true&mode=Basic&tab=local_tab&indx=1&dum=true&srt=rank&vid=BLVU1&frbg=&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=George+Eliot+in+Derbyshire&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl%282084770704UI0%29=any&vl%282084770704UI0%29=title&vl%282084770704UI0%29=any British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=BnQEAAAAQAAJ Retrieved 7 October 2020.